Annalee Newitz comes to terms with grief while exploring the remains of a mysterious ancient city.
Annalee Newitz is the editor of io9, and author most recently of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

As a cultural anthropologist and a person who has experienced loss, I found this talk very profound. This is about what it means to be human, about struggling with the deaths of love ones and with how an archaeologist's understanding of the past can help us through the confusion of being a survivor. Very profound. (And yes, real humans swear.)